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Books like The Making of a Manager
The best books like The Making of a Manager are Radical Candor, An Elegant Puzzle, and The Manager's Path. The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo is about management, leadership, feedback. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Radical Candor
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Kim Scott · Business
Radical Candor is Kim Scott's framework for the central management challenge: how to tell people what they need to hear without damaging the relationship.
Shares management and leadership with The Making of a Manager.
Read the summary → - An Elegant Puzzle
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Will Larson · Business
An Elegant Puzzle is Will Larson's guide to the craft of engineering management, written from his experience leading engineering teams at Digg, Uber, and Stripe.
Both dig into career growth.
Read the summary → - The Manager's Path
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Camille Fournier · Business
The Manager's Path is Camille Fournier's guide to the complete arc of engineering leadership, from tech lead to CTO.
Shares leadership and team building with The Making of a Manager.
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- High Output Management
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Andrew S. Grove · Business
High Output Management is Andrew Grove's manual for how managers at any level should think about their work.
Shares management and leadership with The Making of a Manager.
Read the summary → - Leading
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Alex Ferguson & Michael Moritz · Business
Leading is Sir Alex Ferguson's account of what he learned managing Manchester United for twenty-seven years, written with Silicon Valley investor Michael Moritz.
Shares management and leadership with The Making of a Manager.
Read the summary → - The New One Minute Manager
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Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson · Business
The New One Minute Manager is a 2015 update to Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson's 1982 classic, rewritten to account for flatter organizations, collaborative work environments, and the shift from managers as controllers to managers as enablers.
Shares management and leadership with The Making of a Manager.
Read the summary → - Trillion Dollar Coach
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Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle · Business
Trillion Dollar Coach is a tribute to Bill Campbell, the former football coach and Columbia University athletic director who became the most influential executive coach in Silicon Valley — coaching Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, Sheryl Sandberg, Jeff Bezos, and the co-founders of Google, among others.
Shares management and leadership with The Making of a Manager.
Read the summary → - What Got You Here Won't Get You There
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What Got You Here Won't Get You There
Marshall Goldsmith · Business
What Got You Here Won't Get You There is Marshall Goldsmith's counter-intuitive argument about career plateaus: the behaviors that drive early success in organizations actively work against you once you reach a senior level.
Shares leadership and feedback with The Making of a Manager.
Read the summary → - Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
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Frank Slootman · Business
Amp It Up is Frank Slootman's account of how he approaches leading organizations through rapid growth.
Shares management and leadership with The Making of a Manager.
Read the summary → - Good Authority
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Jonathan Raymond · Business
Good Authority is Jonathan Raymond's argument that the real job of a manager is not to produce results directly but to use the work as a vehicle for people's personal and professional development.
Shares management and leadership with The Making of a Manager.
Read the summary → - HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback
Harvard Business Review · Business
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback is an anthology collecting some of the most cited Harvard Business Review articles on feedback, including pieces by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen, and others.
Shares leadership and feedback with The Making of a Manager.
Read the summary → - It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
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It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson · Business
It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work is a direct challenge to the mythology of startup hustle — the idea that long hours, constant urgency, and full-company stress are signs of ambition rather than poor management.
Shares management and leadership with The Making of a Manager.
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Books like The Making of a Manager: quick answers
What are the best books like The Making of a Manager?
The best books like The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo are Radical Candor by Kim Scott, An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson, The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Leading by Alex Ferguson & Michael Moritz, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Making of a Manager, such as management, leadership, feedback.
What should I read after The Making of a Manager?
A natural next read after The Making of a Manager is Radical Candor by Kim Scott. Shares management and leadership with The Making of a Manager. Other strong choices are An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson, The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove.
What books are similar to The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo?
The Making of a Manager centers on management, leadership, feedback. Books with a similar feel include Radical Candor by Kim Scott, An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson, The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Leading by Alex Ferguson & Michael Moritz, The New One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
